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Im Leben nicht das Ende(2008) (Audio)
Not the End in Life
English translation by Indira, AI assistant. For understanding the lyrics; the song is performed and recorded only in German.
Powerless, it only manages what once was, this year, last year...
Was that all? Unpacked, weighed down, word and pact grind to a halt.
Be ready, scream out, no longer quite normal.
Rage and every “must”, plus something that presses towards life.
Just wait: the other lane is not there for overtaking;
there is something that comes before the end.
It reaches a little further; alas, the mood is cheerful,
and exuberant cheerfulness prevails.
Ideas come, do not go; this strength sparkles,
creating something new despite the old terror.
They have not prevailed in making life, dead and exhausted,
grow limp in the grey of work and the roar of war.
This is in life, in life, in life never the end,
there are in life, in life, in life more than walls.
It is called life; it goes on because it does, not because it must;
this is in life, in life, in life never the finish.
Go on! Laugh! Who is true? Was it true yesterday, is it true tomorrow?
Nothing is fixed; plague in what remains; a spark keeps smouldering.
Firebomb, vocabulary, forever standing room only,
and a new song that passes everything else along.
The life that is here is not one of the worst,
not one you throw away and forget.
There are a few items on the list of beautiful things
that you panic and swallow whenever visitors come.
And besides, unpleasant questionnaires ask
how things should finally be different.
It looks as though the end, where we may soon find ourselves,
is down below, cold and alone... But
